French Navi CD Question

[lofty]

Should I be able to put in a French address using the French navi cd while in the UK or do I need to wait till I get to France?

I've put in the address where I want to go but it just sits at the calculating route screen.

If I put in Paris from the the UK navi cd it works.

[kenp]

you will have to put in the france CD then make the route..

Swap afterwards to the UK disc, and then again swap for the france..

the cd only contains major roads..

[lofty]

you will have to put in the france CD then make the route..

Swap afterwards to the UK disc, and then again swap for the france..

the cd only contains major roads..

Cheers Ken,

Just been speaking to Big Pete and he says the same thing so hopefully when I get near France it will work... otherwise it will be major panic time!

[neilrj]

Most of the CD70 Cd's have full coverage of only one country and then only major roads of the nearest countries. You can get the UK one to navigate to say Paris or anywhere else big on a main route but that's about it. You could sit on a motorway bridge in the UK and use the French disc and get a route to just about anywhere in France, it would work out a route easily for you, but probably from the wrong port here or the wrong way round the M25 or via Ireland or somesuch.
You could save the destination from here but it is easier just do it at the port, it will take the Satnav a good while to realise it's moved abroad and start to calculate.
Use viamichelin website to get a route to compare, it will have tolls and fixed speed camera on it too.

Also the amount of new motorways the French build means you might miss a faster or less messy routes, some of the A85 Loire is missing on mine, a 2010 disc, the A65 Bordeaux area only opened a month or so ago so is probably missing on all discs - the new motorway section around Reims may not be on it either.

Common sense as ever with Satnav, my French disc occasionally wants me to take a turning the wrong way - as in up the on ramp with the guide arrow pointing a hard turn backwards

[lofty]

You could sit on a motorway bridge in the UK and use the French disc and get a route to just about anywhere in France

That's what I thought at first, but mine just sits there saying calculating

Use viamichelin website to get a route to compare, it will have tolls and fixed speed camera on it too.

Also the amount of new motorways the French build means you might miss a faster or less messy routes, some of the A85 Loire is missing on mine, a 2010 disc, the A65 Bordeaux area only opened a month or so ago so is probably missing on all discs - the new motorway section around Reims may not be on it either.

Common sense as ever with Satnav, my French disc occasionally wants me to take a turning the wrong way - as in up the on ramp with the guide arrow pointing a hard turn backwards

Thanks for the extra info

Printed a route out just in case I need it.